The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was not plugged all the way until September 19th of this year. The amount that was spilled in the Gulf may have been more than expected. The temporary cap that was used 2 months ago that stopped some of the flow actually leaked out 4.4 million barells of oil. With this much more oil that has leaked it changes the overall number of how much oil really spilled in the incident. It will take years to fix the mess that has been caused by this spill.
Raloff, Janet "Gulf Spill Bigger"
ScienceNews September 23,2010
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